That moment you realise you’ve done something irretrievably wrong is one of the most gut-wrenching, bottom-tightening moments imaginable. The Spoiler made a mistake once when we finished a sentence with a preposition. Thankfully it’s the only mistake we’ve ever made, but it was bloody [...]

As far as punishments go, The Spoiler can think of a few worse things than having to sit out a pointless international friendly in the middle of the season, a few days ahead of your club’s biggest game in yonks.

Edin Dzeko, the coveted Wolfsburg striker who you’ve no doubt been told – at length – is awesome by someone who has never seen him play, has written a letter to Manchester City asking nicely if they’d give him a [...]

Drama-generating Manchester City forward Mario Balotelli dumped his girlfriend Melissa Castagnoli - who he was spotted out with during his first few weeks in the UK – by text message, just as she was about to appear on [...]